The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time [Paperback]

In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time', seventeen leading scholars explore the central themes of Heidegger's revolutionary work.Martin Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the most influential and revolutionary books in the history of philosophy. It is also, notoriously, one of the most difficult to understand. This Companion will help beginners grasp what Being and Time achieves, and will illustrate what is at stake in Heidegger's existential and phenomenological take on the central issues in the Western tradition of philosophy. The essays in this volume also engage with scholarly debates over the core arguments of Heidegger's seminal works.Martin Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the most influential and revolutionary books in the history of philosophy. It is also, notoriously, one of the most difficult to understand. This Companion will help beginners grasp what Being and Time achieves, and will illustrate what is at stake in Heidegger's existential and phenomenological take on the central issues in the Western tradition of philosophy. The essays in this volume also engage with scholarly debates over the core arguments of Heidegger's seminal works.The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be of interest to scholars. The Companion begins with a section-by-section overview of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this seminal work. The final chapter situates Being and Time in the context of Heidegger's later work. The remaining chapters examine the core issues of Being and Time, including the question of being, the phenomenology of space, the nature of human being (our relation to others, the importance of moods, the nature of human understanding, language), Heidegger's views on idealism and realism and his position on skel3î